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A BRIEF ILLUSTRATED SKETCH OF 

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON, 

VICE-PRESIDENT THOMAS RILEY MARSHALL, 

THE CABINET 

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FOREWORD 



This brochure does not purport to be more 
than an epitome of the lives of the leaders 
of the new Administration, with such illus- 
trations as are necessary to present them ade- 
quately to the public. Every effort has been 
made to secure accuracy of statement, as well 
as to present likenesses, from the best photo- 
graphs obtainable, of the President, the Vice- 
President, the members of the Cabinet, and 
the Speaker of the House. 

It is hoped that even the casual reader can 
gather from this little book a knowledge of 
the character of the men into whose hands 
the welfare of this nation has been committed. 
As these biographies hare been brought into 
compact compass, it will be worthy of preserva- 
tion in your library, not only because of the 
interest in the new Administration, but be- 
cause of the brochure's value as a miniature 
reference work as to Who is Who among the 
leaders of the Government that came into being 
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PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON is the twenty-eighth 
President of the United States. He brings to the adminis- 
tration of the office a more thorough knowledge of the theory 
of government than any of his predecessors and a practical experi- 
ence gained while president of Princeton and governor of New 
Jersey. In bis earliest hook. "Congressional Government," and in 
his later one on "Constitutional Government," he has defined the 
features of our government; and according to his conception the 
President should to-day fill the role of legal executive, party leader, 
and national representative of the whole people. And despite the 
opinions of the makers of the Constitution, who held that the Presi- 
dent should be merely an executive with veto power, this tripartite 
role has been the one filled by all our great Presidents. 

The first President to be born south of Mason and Dixon's line, 
Wilson's Southern birth and ancestry and his Northern experience 
make him, as no President has been since the War, the representative 
equally of the North and the South. 

He was born December 28, 1850, in Staunton, Virginia, a town of 
five thousand people in the famous Valley of Virginia, of a Scotch- 
Irish ancestry made up of editors and clergymen. His father, 
Joseph Ruggles Wilson, was a Presbyterian minister, and his mother 
was Jessie Woodrow, the daughter of a Scotch Presbyterian min- 
ister. Although President Wilson did not know his letters until he 
was nine years old, his father's practice of spending some time every 
Sunday afternoon imparting all kinds of knowledge to his young 
son gave Wilson a fund of general information far beyond his years. 

After a boyhood spent in Augusta. Georgia, and Columbia, South 
Carolina, where his father had pastorates, he entered Davidson 
College, North Carolina, but soon left to go to Princeton, where he 
was graduated in 1879, taking his A.M. degree in 1882. Many 
degrees from other colleges and universities have since been con- 
ferred upon him, as follows: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1886, Rutgers, 
1902; LL.B., University of Virginia, 188-2; LL.D., Lake Forest. 
1887, Tulane, 1898, Johns Hopkins, 1902, Rutgers, 1902, University 
of Pennsylvania, 1903, Brown, 1903, Harvard, 1907. Williams, 1908, 
Dartmouth, 1909; Litt.D., Yale, 1901. 

Upon leaving Princeton, he studied law and practised at Atlanta, 
Georgia, during 1882 and 1883. Becoming interested in the prac- 
tice and theory of government, particularly in America, he wrote 
his first and most famous book on "Congressional Government," 
which attracted such wide and favorable attention that he was 
called by Bryn Mawr College in 1885 to be Associate Professor of 
History and Political Economy, a chair which he held until 1888, 
when he was called to a like chair at Wesleyan University. Then 
in 1890 he became Professor of Jurisprudence and Politics at Prince- 
ton, and filled the chair until August 1, 1902, when he was elected 
president of the University, which he resigned October 20, 1910, to 
become governor of New Jersey. 

While president of Princeton, he introduced the preceptorial 



system by which each student i- brought under th<- imnu 
influence, mentally and morally, of a graduate tutor. His .-(fort- t<> 
democratize the eating clubs by bringing them under the supervision 

of the college authoriti let th.- successful opposition «>f the wealthy 

undergraduates and graduates. And further efforts to democratize 
the students by establishing them in a quadrangle system by which 
groups of upper and lower classes would • >«• brought together in a more 
democratic social relationship met an opposition that split in twain 
the Alumni and Faculty, and caused much bitterness of feeling I 
his splendid address to the Alumni <>f Pittsburg Mr. Wilson 
his policy as follows: 

"I have dedicated every power that there i- within me to l>riiii.' 
the Colleges thai I have anything to do with to an absolutely demo- 
cratic regeneration in spirit, and I shall not be -ati-li<-<l and I hope 
you will not l»- until America shall know that the men in colleges 
an- saturated with the same thought, the -aim- sympathy, that pulse 
through tin- whole body politic." 

This controversy lifted Wilson into such a favorable position before 
all America thai New Jersey elected him governor, in 1910, mi the 
Democratic ticket. Ami during hi- terra a- governor he broke the 
power hi a corrupt machine, brought to enactment an excellent 
direct primary ait. a drastic corrupt practice ait. an Employers' 
Liability ami Workingmen's Compensation Law which work- auto- 
matically, ami the creation ol a public service commission with power 
i.. fix rates 

Hi- conduct a- governor was such that people everywhere began 
tu talk ..I' him a- a Presidential candidate, ami In- was elected Novem- 
ber .".. 1912, taking office March 4, 1913. Such in outline i- the i ar.-.-r 
of our President. What i- his appearance, and what manner of man 
is he? 

In person he i- tall, -parr, and wiry; has a determined face that 
i- unusually severe in repose, but which relaxes in a winning smile 
when In- i- pleased or amused. His eyes an- a k<-.-n gray-blue. In 
i. m- ill tin- limericks which In- often composes in hi- lighter moments 
he describes himself as follows: 

"As a beauty I am nut a -tar. 
There an- others more handsome by far; 
Hut my tan- I don't mind it. 

For 1 am behind it: 
Tin- people in front gel tin- jar." 

Hi- deliberate ami systematic character i- shown by tlu- condition 
.if hi- desk, which always i- "arranged a- neatly ami methodically 

a- a surg« '- instruments." At tlu- conclusion of writing In- will 

take from tin- drawer a piece of chamois -kin. carefully wipe hi- pen, 
return tin- cloth tu the drawer, ami finally cover hi- ink-bottle II 
i- a prodigious worker, ami hi- wide reading ranges from the latest 
poem tu tin- mii-t erudite philosophy. He can discuss equally well 
Kipling's latest poem, Chesterton's most recent paradox, changes in 
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draw inspiration from the common people or break a lance in discus- 
sion with the most learned. Not only is lie a finished speaker, but 
he also has an assured place in literature as an essayist. His high 
rank as a literary man is attested by Bliss Perry, who says that 
Wilson's best writing is in such essays as "The Truth of the Matter 
on being Human" and "Mere Literature." Edmund Burke, Walter 
Bagehot, Charles Lamb, Boswell's "Johnson," Augustine Birrell, and 
William Wordsworth have been the influences that have moulded 
Wilson's literary style. His favorite poem is Wordsworth's "Happy 
Warrior"; and his favorite sport, golf. 

And, finally. President Wilson is a member of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Political and Social 
Science, American Historical Association, American Economic Asso- 
ciation, Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society, and the author of many literary and historical essays, as 
well as "Congressional Government: A Study in American Poli- 
tics," "The State — Elements of Historical and Practical Politics," 
"Division and Reunion, lS'-'O-S!)." "George Washington," and 
"A History of the American People." 



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THE VICE-PRESIDENT 

SOME one has said that genius is the capacity for taking pains, 
which is only another way of saying that he who handles well 
the details gains capacity for the larger things. It is certain 
that the able way in which Thomas Riley Marshall handled the small 
things which came his way as a country lawyer caused the big 
things to seek him and claim him. 

He was for years a clear-thinking, hard-working country lawyer, 
going and coming in his unostentatious, simple way about the 
streets of Columbia City, Indiana, with an office over a dry-goods 
store in a brick block not far from the county court-house, and 
living in a comfortable frame house with broad, maple-shaded piazza 
in front. He was a "good neighbor, good story-teller, good lawyer, 
good citizen, and good friend," runs one description. 

"And so he came 
From prairie cabin up to Capitol. 

The conscience of him testing every stroke 
To make his deed the measure of a man," 

might well be written of him as it was of Lincoln. 

"I have had no career," said he to one of his interviewers, "and 
the story of my life is a short one." 

He was born at North Manchester, Indiana, March 14, KS.54, 
his father being Daniel M. Marshall, a country physician, and his 
mother, Martha A. (Patterson) Marshall. On his father's side he 
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tionary stock; while on his mother's side lie was a direct descendant 
of Charles Carroll. 01 1' the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. He attended the common school, and then went to 
Wabash College at Crawfordsville, where he received his A. 15. 
degree in 1873, his A.M. degree in 1876, and his LL.D. degree in 
1909. Notre Dame University gave him an LL.D. in 1910, and 
the University of Pennsylvania likewise honored him in 1911. He 
studied law with Judge Waller Olds at Fort Wayne, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar when he was just twenty-one, in 187.J. at Colum- 
bia City. Entering the law firm of Marshall, McNagny & Clugston, 
he became the leading partner, and continued to he head of the firm 
until 1909, when he became governor. 

Soon "Tom" Marshall and his epigrammatic way of putting things 
became known all over Indiana. He married in 1895 Lois I. Kim- 
sey, who. under her father, was Deputy Clerk of Steuben County, 
Indiana. 

As Marshall early took an active part in the Democratic politics 
of his town, he was made in 1896 chairman of the Democratic party 
of his Congressional District, hut never held any other political 
office until he became on January 1. 1909, governor of Indiana. 
This honor was entirely unexpected, for the Fort Wayne .Journal 
Gazette, while Mr. Marshall was on his annual vacation at Petoskey, 
Michigan, unknown to Marshall, appeared with the leading edi- 
torial booming him for governor. The boom swept the Stale, and 
he was elected. While governor, he opposed a protective tariff, 
stood for the election of senators by direct vote, favored local self- 
government, an Employers' Liability Law, was firmly against hook- 
making on race tracks, and he was finally (he author of so radical 
a State Constitution that the Indiana State Supreme Court rejected 
it. So splendid a record, however, was his as governor that the 
Democratic National Convention which nominated Wilson chose 
Marshall as Wilson's running mate, and he was duly elected Vice- 
President. 

He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta, the 
University, the Country, and the Indianapolis Literary Clubs, and 
is a thirty-third degree Mason. He has no children. In person 
he is five feet eight inches, weighs 140 pounds, has blue-gray eyes, 
and dresses well. He has no sports or pastimes, though he does 
enjoy a game of baseball. His motto is, "Be content." He enjoys 




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THE Cabinet of President Wilson lias been selected quite as 
much for efficiency as for the political experience of its mem- 
bers. Nearly every man has had actual experience in the 
affairs he will be called upon to handle. Seven of the ten were 
educated as lawyers; though Attorney-General James C. MeReynolds 
was the only one in active practice when appointed. Of the three not 
educated for the law, William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce, 
is a manufacturer of machinery, W. B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, 
a labor leader, and Dr. David F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, 
has long been connected with agricultural affairs and agricultural 
colleges. William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, is creator 
of the new "public-be-pleased" policy of Public Service Corpora- 
tions, — an attitude toward the public which he introduced when presi- 
dent of the Hudson River Tunnel System, known as the "McAdoo 
tubes." Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, was editor of the 
Neivs and Observer of Raleigh, one of the most influential papers in 
the South. 

The average age of the Cabinet is fifty years. Dr. Houston, the 
youngest, is forty-seven; Redfield, fifty-four, is the oldest; while 
President Wilson, who is fifty-six, is older than any of his Cabinet. 
All members of the Cabinet, which contains a strong representation 
of every important section but New England, are men of force, cour- 
age, independence, and experience in large affairs. Many of them 
have been prominent in the Democracy, and three, Redfield, Wilson, 
and Burleson, served in the last Congress. 



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WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN 

Secretary of State 

To William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, belongs the dis- 
tinction of three times having been the Democratic candidate for 
President. To Mr. Bryan's support of Mr. Wilson at the Conven- 
tion in Baltimore Mr. Wilson largely owes his nomination for the 
Presidency. 

He was born at Salem, Marion County, Illinois, March 19, 1860. 
His father was Silas Lillard Bryan, a native of Culpeper County, 
Virginia, and from 1860 to 1897 a State circuit judge. Graduating 
from Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, with high honors and as 
valedictorian in 1881, Bryan studied law at the Union College of 
Law, Chicago, and in the office of Lyman Trumbull. In 1883 
he received the degree of LL.B. from the Union College of Law, and 
in 1884 the degree of A.M. from his Alma Mater. He was admit ted 
to the Illinois bar in 1883, and from his admission to 1887, when he 
moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, his home, practised law at Jacksonville. 

His oratorical powers soon lifted him to prominence in the Demo- 
cratic party of Nebraska. From 1891 to 1895 he was Congressman 
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high honor of serving on the Ways and Means Committee. He was 
a hard, conscientious worker and a brilliant speaker against protec- 
tion, attracting national attention. His stand against the repeal 
of the silver-purchasing clause of the Sherman Act and his advocacy 
of the unlimited coinage of silver caused his defeat in 1894 for re- 
election to Congress, and later he was defeated as Democratic can- 
didate from Nebraska for the United States Senate by John M. 
Thurston. He then became editor of the Omaha World-Herald. So 
vigorous was he on the platform and in the press in support of bimet- 
allism that, when at Chicago in 1896, during a heated discussion of 
the party platform, he made his celebrated speech containing the 
sentences, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this 
crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of 
gold." the "silver" majority nominated him for the Presidency. 
He was the youngest man ever nominated, being but one year older 
than the legal requirement. In the campaign he compassed the 
unprecedented task of travelling over 18,000 miles and making 
(500 speeches in 27 States. At the outbreak of the Spanish-Ameri- 
can War he became colonel of the Third Nebraskan Volunteers, 
but was not called to the front. Although he agreed to the signing 
of peace at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, he dis- 
approved the retention of the Philippine Islands. lie was again 
defeated by William McKinley for the Presidency in 1000, on a 
platform of anti-imperialism into which Bryan insisted that a plank 
advocating free coinage of silver be inserted. 

He then established a weekly journal. The Commoner, in which 
he discussed political questions, and which soon attained wide cir- 
culation. His great sincerity, wide political information, dauntless 
courage, increased his following at home and added to his fame 
abroad, so that in 1005 and 1900, when he made a trip around the 
world, he was received everywhere with the highest honors, and. 
when he returned, his home-coming was a great ovation. His nomi- 
nation for the Presidency for the third time followed in 100S, and, 
although he ran on an anti-trust platform, the real issues were so 
confused by the popularity of Roosevelt, who had nominated Taft, 
and personal issues that Bryan was again defeated. His leadership 
of the Progressive forces at the Baltimore Convention which nomi- 
nated Wilson, as well as his political prominence and knowledge 
of affairs, were doubtless the causes of his selection by Wilson to be 
Secretary of State. 

Mr. Bryan was married October 1, 1884, to Mary Elizabeth 
Baird, of Perry, Illinois, and Mrs. Bryan has long been the confidant 
anil adviser of her husband. She studied law, so that she might be of 
help to him, and during his term in Congress acted as his secretary, 
and accompanied him on his first campaign as his political confidant. 
Her ability, good judgment, broad information, and charm of manner 
have done much to assist her husband. He has written "The First 
Battle," an account of his first campaign for the Presidency, "Under 
Other Flags," "The Old World aim its Ways," and many magazine 
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William Gibbs McAdoo "tunnelled" himself into prominence. 
His imagination, persistence, courage, and financial ability were 
responsible for the Hudson River Tunnels and the Hudson Ter- 
minal Building. He was an early supporter of President Wilson, 
and was vice-chairman of the Democratic Campaign Committee. 

McAdoo was born October 3t, 18(>3, near Marietta, Georgia, 
of an excellent Southern family, that had been ruined by the Civil 
War. His father, William G. McAdoo, M.A., LL.D., was a judge, 
a soldier in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and District Attorney- 
General of Tennessee. The loss of his estate forced the father to 
take a professorship in the University of Tennessee, where young 
McAdoo was matriculated, but left at the end of the Junior year 
because of a lack of family means, and took a clerkship in the United 
State-, Circuit Court. While a clerk, he studied law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1885 at Chattanooga. He then went to Knox- 
ville to run a small street electric railway; and, when it went into 
the hands of a receiver, he became Division Counsel in Tennessee 
for the Central Railroad and Banking Company and the Richmond 
and Danville Railroad Company, and thus secured the railroad 
experience which was later to be used to such advantage. And 
finally, when he was less than thirty, he began to practise law in 
New York, where a few years later he formed a partnership with 
William McAdoo (no relative), who had been an Assistant Secre- 
tary of the Navy in the Cleveland Administration and also police 
commissioner in New York. The partnership was finally dissolved 
in 1902, when McAdoo became interested in the suburb transit 
problems. 

As he lived in New Jersey, the ferry delays impressed him with 
the need of a tunnel, and he organized the New York & New Jersey 
Railroad. In 1902 he acquired the rights of the old tunnel under 
the Hudson, which had been begun in 1874, and in 1903 he was 
elected president, of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company, 
the corporation that operates the tunnel system. After many diffi- 
culties of both a financial and engineering nature he completed the 
first tunnel under the Hudson River between Hoboken, New Jersey, 
and Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street, New York, March 8, 1904. 

His frank attitude toward the public as well as his consideration 
for its rights and demands marked a new era in corporation manage- 
ment. His prominence in finance and his management of large 
enterprises give him just the experience needed in the treasury 
office, where he will have a prominent part in the consideration of 
a new banking law. Strange to say, a few years ago he bought at 
Irvington, New York, five acres and a fine old house, adjoining an 
estate that had belonged to Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary 
of the Treasury ami the founder of our financial system. Mr. 
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JAMES CLARK M< RE^ NOLDS 
Attorney-General 

Mr. McReynolds's wnrk as Special Assistant Attorney-General 
in the prosecution of the Tobacco Trusl and Anthracite Coal cases, 
where he showed marked ability, led to his appointment as Attorney- 
General. He was born :it Blkton, Kentucky, February, 1862; was 
graduated from V'anderbill University, getting his degree B.S. in 
1882; and graduated in lssi from the Law School at the University 
of Virginia, where he was classmate of Oscar W. Underwood, chair- 
man > >f tin- Ways and Means Committee of the House of Repre- 
sentatives. He was admitted to the liar at Nashville, ami from 
1900 to 1903 was a professor at Law School, Vanderbilt University. 
He was called to Washington a- Assistanl Attorney-General in 190 I, 
and held this office until L907. Then he wenl to New York, but 
was again called to Washington as Special Attorney-General in 
matter- relating t'< infringement of the anti-trust laws, particularly 
the Anthracite Coal Industries, the Tobacco Trust, and others. 
As the Tobacco Trust resorted to dilatory tactics to put <itf their 
case, McReynolds promptly took advantage >>f the section >>f the 
Sherman Law which gives the government power t.i seize in transit 

and hold g 1- of a corporation charged with restraint of trade. 

II eized a carload ol cigarettes, and the Tobacco Trust at once 
expedited the trial of it- case. \- he differed from the Attorney- 
General as i" the terms upon which the Tobacco Trust cases should 
ultimately be settled, be resigned and took up the practice of law 
in New York. He is a finished speaker, brilliant lawyer, and a 
bachelor. 

JOSEPHUS DANI1 I - 

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Mr. Daniels i- perhaps the most picturesque character in the 
Cabinet. In summer he always wear- a linen -nit. low collar, black 
flowing lie. and white socks. He doesn't agree with Shakspere's 
" Beware of entrance to a quarrel," but i- thoroughly in accord with 
the conclusion, " But being in, bear "t that the opposed may beware 
nf thee." Daniel- i- a fighter from the eall nf time t<> the decision 
of the referee, and then he would like In -., on. lie ha- -how n this 
spirit in the conduct of the Raleigh Sews 'in, I Observer, one of the 
most fearless and best-known papers in tin- South. He once criti- 
ei-ed Federal District Judge T. R. Purnell for the latter"- acts 
while receiver of a railroad, and was arrested for contempt and put 

in "jail," the jail being a r 1 in a hotel where In- wa- in custody 

• it .1 I nit.d States marshal. Here he wa- kepi four or five days, 
and wrote hi- editorial-, signing them "(ell ;K;."> " He did not 
hesitate in assert also thai the governor of the State wa- conspiring 
to bankrupt the property and throw it into the hand- of a receiver. 

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He was National Committeeman from North Carolina, member 
of the Democratic Campaign Committee and head of the Publicity 
Bureau of the Democratic Committee, and long a personal friend 
of Mr. Bryan. 

Mr. Daniels was born May 18, 186-2, at Washington, North Caro- 
lina; studied at the Wilson (North Carolina) Collegiate Institute. 
and when he was eighteen went on the Wilson Advance; studied law, 
was admitted to the bar, but did not practise. He started a paper 
in Wilson, North Carolina, but later purchased the Raleigh Chron- 
icle, and ran it in opposition to the News and Observer, giving the 
News and Observer such a fight that it was glad to consolidate with 
Daniels as editor. From 1887 to 1893 he was State printer of North 
Carolina, and for two years was chief clerk of the Interior Depart- 
ment, under Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior in Cleveland's 
second administration. Ex-president of North Carolina Editorial 
Association, twice delegate to the Democratic National Conventions, 
member of the Democratic National Executive Commit tec from 
North Carolina, and trustee of University of North Carolina. His 
wife, Alice Worth Bagley, is a sister of Ensign Worth Bagley, who 
was second in command of the torpedo boat "Winslow," and was 
killed while trying to capture a Spanish gunboat at Cardenas, Cuba, 
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DAVID FRANKLIN HOUSTON 

Secretary of Agriculture 

Like President Wilson, Professor Houston has spent most of 
his life educating young men, but has given particular attention 
to agriculture, and therefore is thoroughly equipped for his posi- 
tion in the Cabinet. His career may be briefly summarized as 
follows : — 

He was born in Union County, South Carolina, February 17, 
1864, and graduated from South Carolina College in 1887. After 
graduating he became a tutor in ancient languages, and a year later 
was appointed superintendent of schools at Spartansburg, South 
Carolina. From this position he went in 1891 to Texas to become 
in turn Associate Professor of Political Science, dean of the Faculty, 
and finally in 1905 president of the University of Texas. He was 
also from 1902 to 1905 president of the Agricultural and Mechanical 
College of Texas. He was called in 1908 to St. Louis to become 
chancellor of Washington University, a position held when offered 
the Cabinet position. He received an A.M. degree from Harvard 
in 1882, an LL.D. from Tulane University in 1903 and the Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin in 1906. He is a Fellow of the Texas State His- 
torical Society, a member of the American Economic Association, 
member of Southern Educational Board, and trustee of the John L. 
Slater Fund, a member of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission. 
He has written "A Critical Study of Nullification in South Caro- 
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Labor 

Mr. Wilson, who holds the new Cabinet position, Secretary <>f 
Labor, thai was created March I, 1913, by the signature by Presi- 
denl Tafl of the Act of Congress creating it, conies to the j •» •— i t I«m 
with a labor union can) in his pocket and the confidence "f all working- 
men. \"t only has h<- been secretary-treasurer "f the United Mine 
w ers of America from L900 to 1908, bul he has served three terms 
in Congress, so thai he li;i~ a knowledge of public work as well as 
an intimate acquaintance with the Deeds <>f labor. 

II. was born al Blantyre, Scotland, April •-'. L862. 1 1 i - father, 

Adam \N i I a < -"a I miner, came t.> this country in is7<». and settled 

al Irnot, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Wilson went to work 
in llu- coal mines when l>ut nine years old, ami at eleven he held a 
junior rani in the Mine Workers' Union. H<- had many positions 
in the union before securing the secretary-treasuryship. l)e-|>it<- 
the lack of school advantages he took every moment to read ami 
study, and has made himself ;i man of fine intellect, much information. 
with considerable literary and oratorical powers. He was elected to 
- tilth Congress from Blossburg, Pennsylvania, where he now 
has .1 farm, and was re-elected to the Sixty-first Congress, having 

, votes than all the other candidates. The Democrats mad.' 

him chairman of the Committee on Labor. He was defeated last 
V, , mix i for the Sixty-third Congress by the combined opposition 
of the Republican and Progressive tickets. While in Congress, 
he was an aggressive and forceful debater on labor questions, 
and was listened to with much attention and had greal weight. 
He proved himself to be a man of broad human sympathy and 
fine character. And, whin the new Department of Labor was 
created, he was at once chosen to till it. 1I<- is married, and has 
nine children. 

Willi \\l I OX REDFIELD 

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Mr Redfield, who i- a wealthy manufacturer, came into promi- 
nence in the debate over the taritr bill during Taft's administration, 
showing himself to be an authority upon nol only the practical, but the 
theoretical side of commercial subjects. His speeches on the tariff 
made a great impression all over the country, an. 1 he has come to be an 
authority upon the subject. He has travelled all over ||„. world. 

and everywhere has been a close observer of commercial and <•<■ mic 

affairs. 11>- has been mentioned nol only for the governorship ol S 
York, bul was also spoken of as a candidate for the Vice-Presidency. 

He has made a careful study of business conditions at home and 

abroad, and holds thai labor in America needs no laritf protection, 

as the -kill of American labor more than compensates for the lower 

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American workman produces more and better products in the same 
time than the cheaper f>«r<-i:.'ii labor. 

II- »as bora in Albany, New York. .1 ent to Pitts- 

field in 1n<i7. studied at the Pittsfield High School. II. ■ moved to 
\. York ■ I877,and went int.. the making <>f iron and steel forg- 
ings and tools in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883, where he has for years 
been prominent politically, socially, ami commercially. He has f..r a 
number .>f years been president .>f tin- •). H. Williams Company, the 
Sirocco Engineering Company, vice-president of American Blower 
Company, an. I director Equitable I. if.' Assurance Society. In 1902 

In- was appointed by Borough President Swanstrom C missionerof 

tin- Public Works of Brooklyn, an. I in 1896 he was the Democratic 
candidate forCongress from the Seventh New York District, and in 
1911 became a iih-ihI.it of the Sixty-second Congress from the Fifth 
District. While in Congress, he ha- strenuously advocated a luwt-r 

taritf. particularly on f 1 products, an. I during tin- Sixty-third 

Congress made i of the ablest speeches delivered against the duty 

on woolens. 

In 1912 he went t.> the Far East, Japan, and the Philippines, an. I 
wrote a series >.f letter- upon labor an. I commerce that were very 
enlightening, lie was president <>f the Flatbush Boys* Club, Law- 
yers, Crescenl Athletic Club, Knickerbocker, an. I the Field Club <>f 
Brooklyn, New York. Hi- wife was Mi- Elsie Mercein Puller, of 
Brooklyn. They have two children. Hi- chief pleasure i- music. 



\l r.l i; l SIDNEY BURLESON 
Postmaster-General 

Mr. Burleson i- the firsl Texan t.. have a Cabinet ofiice. He has 
been a member oi < longress for fourteen years, -at in the Sixty-third 
i --.and was a prominent member of the Committee on Agri- 

culture and the Committee on Appropriations. He could have been 
chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, but declined, a- he was 
more int. -re-ted in the Appropriations Committee. \- chairman of 
the Sub-committee in charge of the District of Columbia budget, he 
ha- long been popularly known a- "the Mayor >.f Washington." 

Mr. Burleson was born in San Mar...-. Texas, June '. L86S, and 
was educated at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 
Baylor University of Waco, and the University ol I ■ - II- studied 
law. and was admitted to the bar in 1885, serving a- Assistant 
City Attorney of Austin, Texas, from 1885 to 1890 [n 1891 
he was appointed by the governor Attorney for the Twenty- 
sixth Judicial District, and was elected t.. the Fifty-sixth Congress, 
and served as Congressman until hi- selection a- Postmaster- 
General. He was National Committeeman from Texas and on 
ill.- Campaign Committee which elected Wilson. During the cam- 
he was in charge of the Seven Democratic Speakers Bureau 
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I RANKLIN KNIGH I 1 \M 

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The new Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Franklin Knight I 
<-nt«r- the Cabinet from the chairmanship of tli<- Interstate Com- 
merce ( '< lission. As a member of the Interstate Commission, 

he has always taken ;i "pn nd. holding that the Com- 

mission should have the power to say where new railroad- should 
be located and thai legislation should make it possible fur investors 
t<i know "the purpose f<>r which money was wanted and \>> \«- assured 
of the soundness of their investment." He has also advocated im- 
prisonment for guilty din-. I 

Mr. Lane was born on Prince Edward Island, July 15, 18G4, and was 
the son of Dr. C. S. Lane. Graduating from the University of Cali- 
fornia in 1886, he studied law and liegan practising in San Francisco 
in lssn. In Is'.iT he was elected corporation counsel of San Fran- 
cisco, holding the office until 1902, when he became the unsuccessful 
Democratic candidal.- for governor. In 1908 he received the l)<-m..- 
cratic vote for United States senator. He became a memlier >>f tin- 
Interstate Commerce Commission in 1905, and was also a member 
of the Internationa] Railway Commission representing the United 
States Government. One of his views is that a National Commission 
should regulate all business enterprises engaged in Interstate Com- 
merce. This he believes i- the besl cure for trust evils. Hi- wife 
was Miss Anne Wintermute, of Tacoma, to whom he was married in 
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I.IMH.n M. (, VRRISI IN 
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I .. selection of Lindlej M. Garrison for the war portfolio was 
due I" the unusual administrative ability li<- has shown and to his 
close intimacy with President Wilson when the latter was governor 

\, , Jersey. Upon his shoulders will fall the supervision of the 
Philippine Maud- and the Panama Canal Zone, ll Is a task that will 
require judicial as \\ < 1 1 as executive experience <>t' a high order, which 
Mr. Garrison has shown he possesses. 

At the time of his appointment he was vice-chancellor oi S 
Jersey. 

Mr. Garrison was born November 18, 1864. at Camden, S 

I . and was Hi.' - I il,.- Rev. Joseph F. Garrison, I' l» 

II, ,-,,„i i,, il„- public schools, ll,.- Episcopal Vcademj of Philadel- 
phia, and then I.. Phillips Exeter, \tt.-r one year at Harvard he 
took ill.- law course at tli<- University .if Pennsylvania, and was ad- 
mitted I- tli.- bar ai Philadelphia in Ism: and to the Sew Jersej 
bar in 1888. II.- practised in New Jersey until appointed vice- 

, han. .11 i Sew Jersej on June 15, 1904. under Chancellor M 

and. when lii- seven years' term expired in 1911, he was reappointed 
bj Chancelloi Pitney, now .. justice ,.i the Supreme <'.>uri ..f the 
United S II- ivius married in 1900 to Miss Margaret Hildeburn. 



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( II WIT CLARK 

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Champ (lark. 
who i- said to wield power second only t<> that of the President, 
was President Wilson's strongest competitor for the Presidency. 
He led in the Kail. -tin- for the Presidency on twenty-nine ballots, 
and received a majority on nine. 

When he became Speaker of the House, April t. 1911, in which 
he had served f<>r twenty years, he said in hi- s|iecch of acceptance, 

II. serves his |>arty best who serves his country best." and 1 » i — 
conduct as Congressman and Speaker has shown that he has always 
stood f'>r what he thought were the !»•-( interests of the country. 
H«- has an accurate and comprehensive understanding of history 
ami tin- ability to express vividly his opinions in purest English. 

Champ (lark was born at Moulin- Green, Kentucky, March 7. 
1850, and after an education in the common schools entered K 
lucky University and Bethany College. He attended the Cincin- 
nati Law Scl I, and fr 1873 to 1874 was president of Mar-hall 

College, West Virginia. He has worked as a hired farm hand. 
clerked in a country store, edited a country newspaper, and prac- 
tised law. In ls7."> he moved to Missouri, and later became <ity 
attorney of Louisiana and Bowling Green. He has served a- prose- 
cuting attorney; Presidential elector, delegate to the Denver I 
Mississippi Congress, and in 1889 and ls!»n was a member of the 
M I islatun He was author of the Missouri Anti-trust 

Statute and the Missouri Australian Ballot Law. and permanent 
chairman of the Democratic National Convention. He was elected 
to the Fifty-third Congress, and has served as Congressman ever 
since, being elected Speaker of the Sixty-second and Sixty-third 
( "ongresses. He is married, and has had four children, two of whom 

He declared awhile ago that the i I important issues to be met 

by Congress arc "that of transportation; reform of the financial 
system; final determination of who shall control the potential power 
in the waters of navigable streams; preservation of our natural re- 
. the getting of all election machinery close to the people; 
ting the corrupt use of money in politic-; reforestation; im- 
provement of riser- and harbors; and automatic compensation 
to workmen." 

II. is -i\ feet, two inch.--, weighs two hundred and twenty-five 
pound-, and ha- a smooth face and gray hair. In the heal of debate 
or in the stress of the Speakership he is always in full command of 
himself, and has the rule of procedure at hi- tongue's end. 






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